Usually when these things happen, it’s because someone’s had too much beer and is tipsily returning it to the ocean, but in Brett Archibald’s case it was seasickness that did him in. The 50-year-old South African was on a surf trip in the Mentawai Islands when he became violently ill from rough waters. Some time [...]
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Nicolas Cendoya, one of two hikers missing in Orange County, California, since Easter Sunday, was found by another hiker Wednesday night around 8 p.m. barely a half mile from searchers. He was barefoot, wearing shorts, and was dehydrated and extremely confused. Rescuers took him to nearby Mission Hospital, calling his condition serious. His friend, 18-year-old [...]
Some wildlife encounters you simply don’t expect to survive. Last year, on the day before Halloween, Scott Stephens was gleaming at his good luck. Winds at Humboldt Bay in Northern California were offshore and grooming the waves, which were peaking all along the beach with some extra oomph from the high tide. Stephens nabbed four [...]
A few years ago, I climbed Drift Peak near Leadville, Colorado, on Presidents Day with my friends Aaron and Lee. Lee promised if we made it to the summit with him on what would be his first successful winter ascent of the peak, he’d tell us the story of how the mountain had “almost killed” [...]
THE HUMBLING, DEATH-DEFYING STRUGGLE TO CLIMB EVEREST Six-time sport-climbing national champion Emily Harrington previously scoffed at the thought of taking on Everest — until Conrad Anker asked her if it was something she wanted to do last spring. She went for it, summited, and survived. But in this self-effacing blog post Harrington reveals all the fear, [...]
UPDATE, BELOW — SUSPECT NAMED.The Iron County Sheriff’s Department in southern Utah says it just wants to talk to the man in this security camera image. At least that’s the official word. More official words include “armed and dangerous,” ominous adjectives that are ascribed to an un-named suspect wanted in conjunction with break-ins in around [...]
This isn’t pretty. But it is fact. The annals of exploration are full of gruesome tales of cannibalism. In naval circles it was well known that if a ship ran aground on a deserted island, the custom of drawing lots and killing and eating each other one by one was the norm. A 1536 English [...]
WHEN MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA SURFER ERIC TARANTINO WAS ATTACKED BY A SHARK THIS PAST FALL the 27-year-old had just paddled out into the surf in the pre-dawn light. When the great white struck, it knocked Tarantino cold, and he awoke upside down and in the jaws of the shark. What happened next is somewhat of a [...]
IF THE IDEA OF SURFING THROUGH BLOWING SNOW AND SUB-FREEZING TEMPERATURES in Alaska sounds just a mite too burly for you, consider Scott Jones’ day last week, when a rip tied off Kodiak took him for a ride he couldn’t resist…to a remote headland where he was unable to paddle out from, because gale force [...]
On the day I nearly drowned I distinctly remember the color of the sky (charcoal), the smell in the air (wood smoke), and the sound of a dog barking (mine, a shepherd-collie mix named Ranja, running up and down the shoreline). It was Halloween, 1980. What had been a long, glorious summer had faded into [...]
If you’ve ever gone for a long run and then bonked on the road without cash or credit cards, you’ll appreciate the smarts behind the VITAband, a soft silicone emergency bracelet. There are heaps of emergency IDs available — you sign up, enter all your medical details, next of kin, etc., and then if paramedics [...]
A 64-year-old North Carolina man was hiking in the Utah desert, didn’t tell anyone where he was going, and then fell and severely injured his leg. In Blue John Canyon. Within a literal stone’s throw of where Aron Ralston was trapped by a boulder, cut off his arm, and staggered out to be rescued by rangers in a helicopter.
It was a cloudy day in Boulder, Colorado, and after two long hot weeks on the road, my motivation to ride was waning. I was doing my best to procrastinate, but as the day progressed the realization that I might not get to ride my bike set in and I shuffled out the door around [...]
Lion attacks have been in the news lately, but there’s one story I’ll never forget. It was in the Ogden, Utah, Standard-Examiner last year and featured a hunter who’d shot an “angry” mountain lion while out hunting mule deer. Investigators from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources determined that the hunter had acted in self-defense [...]
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